PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS
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2023
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IF 6.6
Jialong Zhu,Jieyuan Zheng,Yang Hu,Jiao Wei,Yuanchuan Ma,Haolan Gou,Hong Fan
The demand for high-transparent functional coatings with glass-like hardness, polymer-like flexibility, and anti-smudge properties has increased significantly, especially for foldable touchscreens. However, it is challenging to achieve all the required properties in a coating because the realization of these properties may conflict with each other. In this study, we present a facile method for preparing a special organic-inorganic hybrid coating by utilizing epoxy MTQ silicone resins and amine-terminated hyperbranched polysiloxane (HPSi). The chemical structure of the MTQ resin was fine-tuned to obtain the optimal M/T/Q ratio, and a novel HPSi with rich crosslinking sites and excellent flexibility was prepared as the curing agent. The resulting hybrid network imparted the coating with exceptional hardness (pencil hardness, 7–9H) and excellent flexibility (<2 mm bend diameter). In addition, by modifying the MTQ resin with fluorosilane, the surface energy of the coating was reduced to 14.8 ± 0.4 mJ/m 2 and its anti-smudge and self-cleaning properties were improved without sacrificing the transparency of the coating (99.4 % at 550 nm). Notablely, even after 1000 cycles of steel wool abrasion, these coatings still maintain their outstanding performance. This study provides a promising strategy for the development of hard, flexible, and anti-smudge coatings suitable for foldable displays and other related fields.
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Silicon
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2025
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IF 3.3
Li Zhaorui,Li Zhiqiang,Wu Yonghong,Zhu Wenle,Nie Lifang,Liu Juncheng
To improve the efficiency of solar cells, antireflective films require not only high optical properties but also high mechanical properties. The antireflective films were prepared by tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) as precursors and fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether (AEO) as the porogen. The microstructures, optical properties, and mechanical properties of the prepared antireflective films were examined. The results indicated that the AEO volume ratio had an obvious effect on film porosity, refractive index and average transmittance. With the increase of AEO content, the film’s porosity and the average transmittance firstly increased then decreased, the refractive index firstly decreased then increased in the wavelength range of 400–1100 nm. In the meanwhile, both the film’s surface hardness and adhesion strength increased with the increasing of the AEO addition. When the volume ratio of AEO is 45%, the porosity of the film is 48%,the refractive index value for 550 nm wavelength is 1.26and the maximum transmittance is 98.50%.The highest amount of light passing through a material, also known as transmittance, is recorded at an average of 91.98%within the wavelength range of 400–1100 nm, which is 4.64%higher than that of blank glass. In addition, the hardness of the film reaches the highest level for soft films 9H, and its adhesion strength also reaches the highest level of the tape method, 0 grade.
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材料科学
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太阳能技术
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Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
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2024
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IF 2.3
Xu Feifei,Dong Xin,Jia Qian,Chen Ruoyu
Mechanical strength is an important factor that affects and limits the life of surface antireflective (ARC) coatings such as optical lenses, photovoltaic panels, and liquid crystal displays. In this work, a network-structured silica sol was prepared using tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane as silicon sources. Triethoxy(1H,1H,2H,2H-nonafluorohexyl)silane (C 4 FTES) was used to modify the acid-catalyzed silica sol. Finally, the mixed sol was plated on the surface of polymethyl methacrylate by impregnation-pulling method. The coating obtained after drying at 100°C showed a maximum transmittance of 97.98% in the visible wavelength range (400–800 nm). The coating still maintained good optical properties after undergoing various wear-resistant tests such as sandpaper abrasion and cotton ball friction. Moreover, the pencil hardness test of the coating improved from 5B to 3H after it was modified by short-chain perfluoroalkyl groups (C 4 FTES). This work required only low-temperature treatment without calcination to prepare a silicon-based ARC coating formed by copolymerization of C 4 FTES and TEOS, and the mechanical properties of the coating meet actual needs. This easy-to-operate preparation method greatly expands the application scope of silicon-based ARC coatings in the field of heat-sensitive materials. Graphical abstract The polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) substrate is coated with a fluorine-containing coating with a network structure, which greatly improves the transmittance and surface hardness of the substrate.
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材料科学
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光学工程
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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
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2024
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IF 5.8
Siwen Cui,Yufei Ge,Shuailing Ma,Xiaoqi Zhang,Min Lian,Xinmiao Wei,Wei Li,Cun You,Qiang Tao,Tian Cui,Pinwen Zhu
Electrically conductive silicon nitride ceramics with both high hardness and electrically conductive properties are promising advancing ceramics. However, ensuring the high hardness while simultaneously enhancing their electrical conductivity poses a great challenge. In this work, Si 3 N 4 -carbon composites with different carbon content were synthesized with diamond phase transformation method under high pressure and high temperature (HPHT). The α→β phase transition in silicon nitride enables the coexistence of α/β phases, offering a hardness of up to 23.15 ± 0.08 GPa, comparable to dense silicon nitride ceramics and significantly higher than synthesized silicon nitride-graphite composites. Diamond uniformly distributed in the silicon nitride matrix is graphitized at high temperatures to form conductive channels, reducing resistivity to 2 × 10 - ⁴ Ω∙m, over a dozen orders of magnitude lower than pristine silicon nitride. This phase transition sinter mechanism provides a method for designing conductive Si₃N₄-based ceramics with high hardness.
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材料科学
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陶瓷工程
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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 2.3
Shang Zhihang,Li Zhiqiang,Zhou Xiang,Zhanwang Xingzhou,Nie Lifang,Liu Juncheng
High-hardness hydrophobic anti-reflection thin films were prepared by a mixture of acid-catalyzed and alkali-catalyzed sols using tetraethyl silicate (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) bisilicon sources as precursors. The alkali-catalyzed SiO 2 sol and the acid-catalyzed SiO 2 sol modified with aliphatic alcohol ethoxylated ether (AEO) were synthesized firstly, and then the acid-catalyzed SiO 2 sol was doped into the alkali-catalyzed SiO 2 sol in a certain ratio to prepare the anti-reflection thin films. The effects of the doping ratio of acid-catalyzed SiO 2 sol on the microstructures and properties of thin films were investigated. The experimental results show that both the transmittance and the contact angle increase and then decrease with the increasing of the doping ratio of acid-catalyzed SiO 2 sol, and the surface hardness and adhesion are gradually enhanced. When the doping ratio of acid-catalyzed SiO 2 sol is 30%, the average transmittance of the reflectance-reducing film is 92.51% in the wavelength range of 400–1100 nm, which is 5.17% higher than that of the blank glass. The water contact angle of the reflectance-reducing film is up to 92°, and the adhesion of the film is the highest level 0. After 100 h of UV exposure, the transmittance of the film was reduced by 1.1%. Graphical
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材料科学
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表面工程
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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
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2025
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IF 7
Yu He,Shengwei Xin,Baoru Sun,Xuecheng Cai,Yapeng Lin,Lingwei Kong,Xun Shen,Congcong Du,Xiaoyuan Yuan,Kangkang Wen,Tongde Shen
Metals are often soft while ceramics are often hard. To make metals as hard as ceramics has been long-awaited in metals and ceramics communities. In this study, bulk nanocrystalline (NC) tungsten-1 wt% yttrium-0.7 wt% titanium (WYT) was fabricated via mechanical alloying followed by high-temperature/high-pressure sintering. The high pressure directly inhibits grain growth by suppressing atomic diffusion and indirectly inhibits grain growth by lowering sintering temperature, enabling the synthesis of dense NC WYT bulks with an average grain size of ∼ 9.0 nm. The high temperature causes annealing- and segregation-induced structural relaxation of grain boundaries (GBs) in sintered bulk NC WYT, resulting in GBs with a small excess volume of only ∼ 0.005 nm, one fifth that of bulk NC tungsten. The small grain size and the relaxed GBs in the bulk NC WYT make it hard for GBs to emit dislocations, resulting in extremely high hardness of 23.2 ± 0.3 GPa, yield strength of 9.4 ± 0.3 GPa, and ultimate compressive strength of 13.1 ± 1.1 GPa. The hardness of metallic bulk NC WYT is comparable to that of ceramic tungsten carbide (WC) whereas the wear rate of bulk NC WYT is even lower than that of WC. The structure-relaxed GBs lower the thermodynamic driving force for grain growth and result in an extremely high thermal stability - no grain growth occurs in bulk NC WYT annealed at a high temperature of 1500 °C, which is above the recrystallization temperature of tungsten. The present strategy - multifunctional treatments of NC alloy powders by high-temperature/high-pressure - provides a huge potential to manufacture dense bulk NC materials with exceptional mechanical property and thermal stability for practical applications.
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材料科学
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金属学
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Journal of Composites Science
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2023
·Vol. 7
·期 2
·51
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IF 3.3
Zhanqi Li,Ling Zhu,Xiaowen Xie,Meng Zhou,Changqing Fu,Shuai Chen
Despite the fact that PEDOT:PSS has been successfully used in the field of flexible electronics, some of its applications in the domain of rigid conductive coating have been limited by the pricey cost and subpar mechanical properties (hardness, adhesion, and moisture absorption) of the commercially available Clevios™ PH 1000, as well as the poor conductivity, film formation, and mechanical properties of the self-made PEDOT:PSS. In the process of investigating the low-cost preparation of PEDOT-based conductive polymer coatings, we discovered that self-made PEDOT:PSS, a waterborne epoxy resin, and a bio-based epoxy curing agent can be blended uniformly to produce good film-forming conductive coatings. Later, the addition of KH560-modified nano-SiO2further improved the coating’s hardness while ensuring a modest increase in conductivity. Meanwhile, the inadequacies of the epoxy resin, which are not UV-resistant, were considerably improved by the synergistic action of PEDOT:PSS and the modified SiO2. The result is a low-cost method designed for creating conductive coatings that are UV-resistant and may be utilized for electromagnetic, electrothermal, and antistatic shielding applications. Such a PEDOT:PSS/epoxy composite system and its design approach will broaden the scope of PEDOT:PSS’s application and will inspire future research in and practical implementations of PEDOT:PSS-based conducting coatings.Keywords:waterborne epoxy resin;PEDOT:PSS;high hardness;conductive coatings;bio-based;UV-resistant
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化学工程
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2022
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IF 10.383
Kaibo Pan,Chongming Liu,Zhicheng Zhu,Tanglue Feng,Songyuan Tao,Bai Yang
The rapid development of optical and electronic devices has driven up the demand of high performance optical protective films to avoid exterior influence and extend the service life. But it is not easy to obtain an ideal coating film with high transmittance, high hardness, and good flexibility. Herein, by taking advantage of the special core–shell structure of carbonized polymer dots (CPDs), we propose a strategy to build up a nanoscale soft–hard segment microstructure for optical protective coating materials. The CPDs with hard core and soft polymer chain shell are prepared from citric acid and (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane. The as-prepared CPDs can be converted directly to the coating film by the dehydration and cross-linking. In addition to the good optical transmittance, the final film exhibits simultaneously ultrahigh 9H pencil hardness to stand 4000 cycles of a steel-wool wear test, and excellent flexibility to stand bending and rolling-up.
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高影响因子
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2021
·Vol. 47
·期 21
·30039-30042
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IF 4.527
Leihao Feng,Qiwei Hu,Li Lei,Lei Qi,Leilei Zhang,Meifang Pu,Zili kou,Fang Peng,Duanwei He,Yohei Kojima,Hiroaki Ohfuji,Tetsuo Irifune
High-hardness TaN compacts with a diameter and height of 6 mm were synthesized through the phase transformation of CoSn-type into WC-type TaN under experimental conditions of high temperature and high pressure . The Vickers hardness of WC-type TaN compacts obtained at the pressure of 5 GPa and the temperature of 1873 K is found to be ~21.5 ± 1.5 GPa with a load of 3 Kg, which is comparable to that of the pure tungsten carbide compact (~20 GPa) and higher than those of ultrahigh temperature ceramics ZrB 2 and HfB 2 under the same load. The high hardness of WC-type TaN compacts presented in this work is attributed to the deviatoric strain and well-bonded nanograins . The synthesized WC-type TaN compacts also possess a high oxidation temperature (1072 K). These results suggest that the WC-type TaN with high hardness and high thermal stability holds great promise for industrial applications.
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材料科学
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无机非金属材料
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超硬材料
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高温材料
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固态化学
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AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY
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2022
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IF 5.202
Yi-Fan Yang,Wei-Guo Li,Ping-Ping Wen,Pan-Pan Jia,Yong-Zhi Li,Tian-Yun Li,De-Sheng Pei
How local groundwater induces chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka is still elusive. This study aims to elucidate the impacts of Sri Lanka's local groundwater in a CKDu prevalent area and reveal the possible pathogenic mechanism of CKDu using zebrafish models. The drinking water from the local underground well in Vavuniya was sampled and the water quality parameters including Na + , Mg 2+ , K + , Ca 2+ , Cl − , NO 3− , SO 4 2− , and F − were analyzed. Then, local groundwater exposure to zebrafish larvae and 293T cells was performed, and water with high hardness and fluoride was prepared as parallel groups. Our result showed that exposure to Sri Lanka's local groundwater caused developmental toxicity, kidney damage, and pronephric duct obstruction as well as abnormal behavior in zebrafish. Similar results were also found after exposure to water with high hardness and fluoride in zebrafish. Further, the expression levels of marker genes related to renal development and functions ( foxj1a, dync2h1, pkd2, gata3 , and slc20a1 ) were significantly altered, which is also confirmed in the 293T cells. Taken together, those results indicated that Sri Lanka's local groundwater in a CKDu prevalent area could cause kidney damage, implying that high water hardness and fluorine might be the inducible environmental factors for the etiological cause of CKDu.
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毒理学
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水生生物学
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分子生物学
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Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
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2018
·Vol. 16
·期 2
·415-428
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IF 1.619
Wei Daidong,Liao Bing,Yong Qiwen,Wang Huiyi,Li Tao,Huang Jianheng,Pang Hao
Synthesis, characterization, and coating performance of castor oil (CO)-based waterborne hyperbranched polyurethane acrylate (WHPUA) emulsions are highlighted in this work. Herein, a second-generation CO-based hyperbranched polyester (C20) was synthesized by introducing the renewable CO as a B 3 core and dimethylolpropionic acid as an AB 2 monomer via a pseudo-one-pot condensation procedure. Three types of CO-based WHPUA emulsions were prepared through the addition of the hyperbranched C20 with maleic anhydride (MA) and the isocyanate-bearing semiadduct (IPDI-HEA) at different MA/IPDI-IH molar ratios without the addition of any emulsifiers. The prepared emulsions were further formulated into UV-curable coating formulations and exposed to a medium-pressure mercury lamp. Consequently, the obtained UV-cured coatings exhibited outstanding adhesion performance, excellent transparency, and an acceptable degree of final double bond conversion. Owing to a relatively low concentration of hydrophilic units and a large number of acrylate functionalities in the waterborne oligomer, the obtained films were endowed with high crosslinking density and low hydrophilic nature, thus producing enhanced tensile strength, pencil hardness, water resistance, and chemical resistance. Due to their combination of renewable materials, a waterborne system and a UV-curing technique, these CO-based WHPUA emulsions offer promising opportunities to be used as environmentally friendly coatings.
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材料科学
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聚合物化学
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涂料技术
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EcoMat
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2023
·Vol. 5
·期 11
·e12405
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IF 14.6
Zhongxuan Wu,Yan Zhan,Shuaiming He,Panpan Yue,Guanghui Song,Jun Rao,Ziwen Lv,Bo Jiang,Baozhong Lü,Gegu Chen,Feng Peng
The commercial plywood is mainly made of high-value wood veneer and formaldehyde-based adhesives, which pose a major risk to human health and environmental protection. Here, we report an all-natural plywood made of self-adhesive bark veneer directly from hardy rubber trees (HRT) via delignification, epoxidation reaction and densification. The resulting bark veneer is demonstrated with sandwich structures featuring natural integration between cellulose and biopolymer Eucommia ulmoides gum (EUG). The intrinsic EUG act as a potential strong “self-adhesive” and water-proofing agent, leading to bark veneer with high hardness, excellent hydrophobicity, wear resistance, and low thermal conductivity. Furthermore, we can produce the self-adhesive plywood on a large scale directly from HRT bark using this approach without any adhesives, endowing it with environmental friendliness, safety in use, and health benefits of human beings. Combining its efficient and low-cost production, the bark veneer shows great promise in fabricating high-performance and environmentally sustainable plywood.
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材料科学
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林业工程
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环境科学
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危险品化学品经营许可证（带存储）